1. Understand & detail your project goals.
2. Understand your community context (see mapping).
3. Think about what storytelling can do for your community, your project:
An example from Biddeford, Maine during their Storytelling Planning Workshop:
4. Match community context to your project goals & storytelling uses:
5. Look at the Process:
Plan Storytelling Waves, remembering to think about scale and timeframe as well as your community's capacity for such a project:
- What kind of soft launch will draw people to the project? Will you invite people you hope to enlist as faciltators/story catchers later on? Will the soft launch focus on the first two circles of the map but be inclusive of all---having the high school students showcase their digital stories?
- Can you plan some small forays out into the communities less likely to participate? Some kind of theme-based storytelling? Neighborhood get-togethers to explain the project and tell stories in small groups? Informal-group-based storytelling? Some photo exhibits places around town? Contests--team story quests about the town? Story-trivia night with prizes? Showings of student stories on local radio/television?
- Do you have other ideas for non-verbal storytelling that might appeal to this community? Murals? Paintings? Photo exhibits--now-and-then-and-in-the-future?
5. Think about--
STORY GATHERING: Impact of Process Decisions on Heart & Soul Goals
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Project Goal 1
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Project Goal 2
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Project Goal 3
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Will We Focus on Stories &/or Storytelling?
Why?
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Whose Stories Need Telling & Why?
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Who Edits & Catches? Why?
Teller?
Interviewer?
Group?
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Questions to Elicit
Good Stories
About H & S
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Media Choices
No Tech
Lo-Tech
Hi-Tech
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Local Capacity &
Training Needed for Story Gathering
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Story Sharing & Story Use Impact of Sharing & Story Use on Project Goals
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Project Goal 1
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Project Goal 2
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Project Goal 3
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Where will the stories be shared? With whom? When?
Why?
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How?
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How will the values be harvested from the stories?
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How will the stories be used beyond sharing?
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Local Capacity &
Training Needed for Story Sharing, Value Harvesting & Story Use
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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Storytelling
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Project Goal 1
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What will be assessed? Why?
(How will the stories be used in the H & S Planning Process?
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Who will do the assessment?
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When in the process?
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How? What mechanisms will be used?
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How will you know success when you see it?
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Local Capacity &
Training Needed for Story Assessment
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An excellent resource on planning a storytelling project is the online (free) book, Working with Stories.
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